that in some cases their rules were sometimes more honoured in their breach than in their observance. The same is observable at Old Cleeve Abbey. These traces of colour have not, I believe, hitherto been noticed, and another feature of interest may have attention directed to it. Many of the stones have masons’ marks. I collected readily a dozen or more different examples, besides others slightly different or reversed, and they deserve comparison with those that have been noted elsewhere. It has sometimes been stated that all the buildings are of the same date, but a small amount of inspection will assure us that the east end is the oldest, say of a date within the first twenty years following that of the foundation; the transepts a little later, and the west front, as represented by its style, about 1,260. The ground floor of the conventual buildings is of the same date as the transepts, the style possibly older, but the dormitory floor above is at least 150 years later than the foundation, since we cannot assign an earlier date than the middle of the fourteenth century. The square-headed doorways have the same flowing mouldings as the windows; at this time the arches and flowing tracery of the chapter-house were added into the older openings. The western lancet of the south transept is filled in with tracery of the fifteenth century date into the older opening. There are traces of the use of stonework of earlier date than in these buildings. The fireplace in the muniment room has an inscription which has often been given, which shows that it was once part of a tombstone. The sill of the little unglazed niche looking from the room at the end of the dormitory into it has been part of an incised slab. The present rough roof of the dormitory is modern, but the water tables in the south transept gable show that it is of the same pitch as the original one. The door in the south side of the refectory is an unusual feature. It was probably for hoisting up the trusses of straw for the monks’ beds, and for the passage of articles which could not be brought up the narrow day stairs. Several rectangular apartments are indicated, and it is probable that the refectory extended north and south. Just a trace of a wall at right angles to the day-room going west may be traced among the farm appliances at this corner, and also an angle buttress. All the walls are constructed of their dark blue slaty stone, with dressings of reddish freestone, all of great durability and excellent workmanship. The main windows of the church are not rebated for glass, and it is probable that they were filled in with stained glass secured to the iron stanchion bars, which have been numerous, and wedged into the stonework. Since these would not be furnished with open casements,